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Science 15 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5793, p. 1557
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5793.1557
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Mild Climate, Lack of Moderns Let Last Neandertals Linger in Gibraltar

Michael Balter

A team working at Gibraltar, at the southern tip of Spain, reports radiocarbon dates suggesting that some Neandertals survived thousands of years longer than previously thought, taking refuge in southern Europe where the climate and environment were favorable, and where modern humans were still fairly thin on the ground. (Read more.)

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